Grok Code Fast 1: API pricing, providers and specs
Grok Code Fast 1 is a text model by xAI. 7 providers serve it, from $1.43 to $2 /1M; the lowest price is at Jiekou.AI.
How Grok Code Fast 1 compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.43 /1M against a median of $1.10; 57% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 256K-token context window is larger than 38% of them (median 262K), about 380 pages of text.
- On LMArena's WebDev board it ranks #64 of the 64 comparable models scored there.
- 7 providers serve it; 71% of comparable models have fewer.
Grok Code Fast 1 prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Jiekou.AI | $0.19/1M | $1.43/1M | $0.019/1M | — |
 Helicone | $0.20/1M | From$1.50/1M | $0.02/1M | — |
 Azure | $0.20/1M | From$1.50/1M | — | — |
 APIYI | $0.20/1M | $1.50/1M | — | — |
 Requesty | $0.20/1M | From$1.50/1M | $0.02/1M | 256K |
 AIHubMix | $1/1M | From$2/1M | $0.20/1M | 256K |
| AI/ML API | $1/1M | $2/1M | $0.20/1M | — |
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- xAI
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 256K≈ 380 pages of text
- Max output
- 10K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Aug 28, 2025
- License
- —
- Open weights
- —
- Arena score
- 1167WebDev
- Monthly searches
- 3K
Alternatives to Grok Code Fast 1
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grok Code Fast 1this model | $1.43/1M | 256K | 1167 | 7 |
 GLM-5.3 | $1.10/1M | 1.05M | 1623 | 49 |
 Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B | $4.11/1M | 1M | — | 22 |
 Gemini 3 Flash | $2.40/1M | 1.05M | 1466 | 5 |
 Mistral Large 4 | $2.09/1M | 1.05M | 1543 | 13 |
 Muse Spark 1.3 | $4.25/1M | 1.05M | 1657 | 11 |
| Qwen3.8 27B | $0.50/1M | 262K | 1591 | 33 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
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Grok Code Fast 1 FAQ
The lowest price for Grok Code Fast 1 is $1.43 /1M, at Jiekou.AI.
Jiekou.AI, at $1.43 /1M. 7 providers serve Grok Code Fast 1; the table above lists every one with its price.
Grok Code Fast 1 reads up to 256K tokens per request and writes up to 10K.
We have not found Grok Code Fast 1's weights published by its maker.
7 API providers serve Grok Code Fast 1. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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